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Fort Frances Times Online Edition - February 19, 2016

Students, staff, and representatives from both the Rainy River District School Board and Seven Generations Education Institute (SGEI) checked out the 12 new welding booths at Fort Frances High School yesterday during an open house to celebrate the grand-opening of a welding program facility.

Ethan Jourdain of the Muskies has some prime real estate in front of Sioux Lookout Warriors goalie Magnus Ray. But Jourdain was unable to get the puck in, as Ray made one of his multitude of saves during the Fort’s 5-0 shutout of the Warriors in Game 1 of the best-of-three NorWOSSA boys hockey semifinal last night at the Ice for Kids Arena.

“I’m exhausted,” grinned the worn-out, but happy defenceman who played more than 30 minutes as one of only three blueliners to finish the game as the Muskies toughed out a 5-0 victory over the Sioux Lookout Warriors in Game 1 of the best-of-three NorWOSSA boys hockey semifinal last night at the Ice for Kids Arena.

WASHINGTON Battling in intense public broadsides, Apple Inc. and the government are making their cases before anyone steps into a courtroom over a judge’s order forcing Apple to help the FBI hack into an iPhone in a sensational terrorism case.

GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta.—Nunavut’s debut at the Canadian women’s curling championship was dramatic. Geneva Chislett’s team from Iqaluit earned the territory’s first ever victory at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

Nunavut downed B.C.’s Karla Thompson 8-7 in the first draw of the pre-tournament qualifier yesterday.

SAN DIEGO—The federal government is using eye scans and facial recognition technology for the first time to verify the identities of foreigners leaving the United States on foot—a trial move aimed at closing a longstanding security gap, officials announced yesterday.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The International Space Station just got a whole lot tidier.

A pair of NASA astronauts released a capsule loaded with 1.5 tons of trash Friday as the space station soared over Bolivia. The capsule should re-enter the atmosphere and burn up harmlessly over the Pacific on Saturday.

CHARLESTON, S.C. The American presidential race is now being fought in a state so renowned for below-the-belt, tire-iron-to-the-kneecap politics that its most famous political operative wound up writing a death-bed mea culpa.

Welcome to South Carolina.

“We play hardball,” says David Woodard, a campaign veteran who now teaches at Clemson University.

Thrusting himself into the heated American presidential campaign, Pope Francis declared Thursday that Donald Trump is “not Christian” if he wants to address illegal immigration only by building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Trump fired back ferociously, saying it was “disgraceful” for a religious leader to question a person’s faith.

SAN DIEGO The federal government is using eye scans and facial recognition technology for the first time to verify the identities of foreigners leaving the United States on foot a trial move aimed at closing a longstanding security gap, officials announced Thursday.